Please. Truckers aren't intentionally giving kids asthma. Go after the capitalists who incentivized the behavior. Otherwise you're just harming more innocent people. (edit: grammar)

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vel0city 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Truckers aren't intentionally giving kids asthma

The number of trucks I see that are either horribly maintained or purposefully modified to defeat emissions devices spewing massive clouds of black smoke every time they step on the accelerator pedal speaks otherwise to me.

Rolling Coal is absolutely a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

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MisterTea 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You really don't see that here in NYC. Enforcement for big rigs and even pickups curbed a lot of that. Used to be common to see a big truck or especially a city bus belch black smoke but nowadays with enforcement and emissions systems it's much less common. Ironically, the worst offenders are the obviously poorly maintained school busses.

	▲	vel0city 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Truckers aren't intentionally giving kids asthma This was the claim I was addressing. Truckers (a group that applies to more than just people in NYC) are intentionally giving kids asthma through their choices to defeat or not maintain emissions equipment, I see it every day. Maybe NYC is enforcing their emissions standards enough to no longer make it worth it to truckers there, but don't doubt they'd go back to belching toxic fumes to save a penny if given the chance there. They do it practically everywhere else.

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squigz 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Even those people don't deserve to be "dragged from their cabs and beaten by angry mobs"

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